The visit of the Empress of Austria caused a great sensation in China, although the vast majority of the people did not know anything about this foreign empress, but out of a good impression of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they still greeted her with the most enthusiastic gesture, after all, this was also the first foreign empress to visit China.

With the improvement of the country's strength in recent years, the Chinese people are still very resentful of those European powers that have invaded China, which can be seen from the fact that the Chinese capitalists showed no mercy when they attacked the British and French markets, but often left a glimmer of leeway when they were German and Austrian merchants.

Hundreds of thousands of people crowded the wharf at the port of Shanghai to welcome the empress to Chinese soil with a grand welcome ceremony, including Lin Luoke, who also personally greeted her girlhood idol at the pier on behalf of Emperor Yang, and then the two empresses toured Shanghai together, and then took the train to Hangzhou to visit Hangzhou University, which is already the most famous university in China, where they gave a speech to encourage the students.

By now, the Chinese have become accustomed to their empress from Sweden, not to mention that Lin Luoke herself also has countless admirers among young people, especially in college, her cartoons are even more obsessed with countless girls, at least compared to Ye Zi, who has a tough personality and always likes to mix with government affairs, and more mysterious colorful clothes, she is more in line with the image of the empress in the minds of the people.

After leaving Hangzhou, the two queens went north to Suzhou, enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the garden, and then took the train to Nanjing, took the royal cruise ship along the Yangtze River in Nanjing, Yang Feng arranged a tour route for them all the way to the Three Gorges, and then took the train to Sichuan to see the pandas, and when they returned, they liked to take a pair, and then went to Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake to turn around, and then entered the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to the north, and later generations ignored this canal, Yang Feng was very good at this canal, it represents a real eloquent monarch in Chinese history. It's a pity that it is also the most tragic monarch.

After Emperor Yang sat in the world, while developing railways and shipping, he also paid for the re-dredging of the Grand Canal by himself, and took special money to maintain it every year to ensure the full navigation capacity of the canal, and even prepared to widen the canal to increase its capacity, even if the modern canal in Europe is still an important means of transportation, the Chinese who dug the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal cannot lose to the small countries of modern Western Europe in this regard.

Of course, the journey of the two queens will not go directly from the canal to Beijing, they will disembark in Xuzhou. Then take the train into Shandong, after all, there is still a sage tablet there, and Emperor Yang is currently hyping Confucian philosophy abroad, naturally he will not let go of this hype gimmick, he even renews the title of Yan Sheng Gong like the emperors of previous dynasties, and then this generation of Yan Sheng Gong Kong Lingyi will let Europeans see what it means to be ancient.

Emperor Yang didn't need to worry about these things, as soon as he handed them over to the Empress Xià, he only needed to teach his bacteriological weapons cultivation in Beijing while waiting for the guests to come to the door.

The situation in Europe. The invitation to Canovas to convene the Madrid Conference calmed down for the time being, but the French, in order to show toughness, sailed a cruiser to the Moroccan port of Agadir. At the same time, a German cruiser also sailed to the port of Tangier, and although the two sides stopped verbally tossing, they had already played a substantive confrontation.

The appearance of the British is also very unreassuring. Although the British Empire has not yet been able to extricate itself from the quagmire of Nigeria, the are limited in their ability to contain them. Especially now that the British Navy is in absolute superiority, it is not impossible to take the opportunity to start a war and completely strangle the German Navy.

Just in case, this guy decided to prepare early, he put the first oil platform just built by Great Wall Heavy Industries, loaded it as quickly as possible and then shipped it to Germany, although the quality of this platform, he is not very sure, but fortunately, the German offshore oil fields are on the shore, and the requirements for the platform are not very high, just make do with it.

His move moved the Germans quite a lot, and even Haijing came to re-raise the issue of the alliance between the two sides, of course, Yang Feng would definitely refuse this.

Fortunately, with the arrival of the Great White Fleet, the Europeans were a little clearer, although this fleet came to visit Wèn, but at present, under this tense situation, the arrival of such a powerful fleet is still very vigilant for all parties, especially the United Kingdom, which was originally confident that it had an overwhelming maritime superiority over Germany, and it was even more vigilant at this time.

Although Yang Feng rejected William's request for an alliance, judging from the fact that the two of them have always hooked up over the years, it is difficult to say whether they will help Germany, his six perfect battleships, plus two owned by his ally Ottoman, and eight owned by Germany and Austria, the total number can already be close to what Britain, France and Russia currently have, not to mention that once Yang Feng enters the war, then Sweden and Spain are also very difficult to say who they will help, the Spaniards still have two more ships, and Sweden's six ships have all arrived, Although it is small, its combat effectiveness must not be underestimated, and if it really wants to join the war, the Russian Baltic Fleet cannot be expected to come out.

In the final analysis, the British themselves know very well that because of the entanglement of Asian interests, even if Yang Feng does not throw himself into Germany, he will definitely not be able to help the British, mainly because he has a large number of industries in the United Kingdom and has scruples, otherwise this guy will not hesitate to join the ranks of the British attack.

So at a time when Yang Feng had the ability to influence the situation, the British decided to give him some benefits, at least to appease the hostility of the Chinese people towards the British.

"You want to sell the lease of the Kyushu lease?" Yang Feng looked at Sa Daoyi with a smile, he was still very happy that the British were so knowledgeable.

"Yes, Your Majesty, our government has no intention of continuing to keep this leased land, but it is not appropriate to return it to the Japanese government, so I hope it can be sold to interested countries." Sa Daoyi said. The main goal of the British to maintain the lease in the northern part of Kyushu Island was to spy on Russia, but since the rise of China, the main surveillance target has been changed to China, but the actual military significance of this place is not great, it is too far away from the main British sphere of influence, and there is a German lease next to it, if there is really a war, the British naval and land forces stationed in Nagasaki will only end up in a dead end, they will not be able to get any support at all, and it is also impossible to pose any threat to China.

If you don't want to go to war with China, this leased land makes the Chinese look extremely dazzling, after all, it is only a few hundred kilometers away from Shanghai, the center of China's economy, and now the diesel engine warship is faster, basically half a day, it can be said that it has now become a symbol of British containment of China, and at least half of the Chinese people's antipathy to Britain is because of this leased land.

Now that Yang Feng has been ceded out of the North Pacific, it is better to let it go thoroughly, not to leave such a tail, and to use this to bring relations with China closer, at least to send a signal to the Chinese people that the British Empire has completely withdrawn from their field of vision.

"In this way, since you have this meaning, then I can't refuse, I will arrange for the cabinet to talk to you in detail, if the price is reasonable, I think the cabinet will accept it." Yang Feng said with a smile.

Of course he was happy, the British warships on Kyushu Island looked really annoying, although there was no real threat, but like a fly always wandering around in front of him, it was also very annoying, although after the war, he could grab it directly, but it was much better to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds to buy it than to die a few thousand people in exchange, and this could also release goodwill to Britain, so as to deepen the friendship with Britain, so that they could rest assured and boldly clean up William.

In this way, China and Britain soon signed an agreement in Beijing, and the British government transferred the lease rights of their Kitakyushu lease land to China for the remainder of the lease period at a price of 200,000 pounds, and their original lease term was 99 years, which is just a fraction of the time has passed, that is to say, there are still 90 years, and since then the British Concession of Kitakyushu in Japan has been renamed the Kitakyushu Central Concession.

Before signing this transfer agreement, the two imperialists did not seek the opinion of the real owners of this land in the slightest, but the Japanese government reacted calmly, anyway, they had already accepted their fate, and there was no difference between them in the hands of the British and in the hands of the Chinese.

In particular, after the last industrial disaster in Matsushima Bay, the working class, which has become more and more able to raise its voice, has fiercely attacked this incompetent government controlled by foreign capitalists, and a large number of workers have taken to the streets to protest against the government's turning a blind eye to the imperialists' criminal act of selling off their own land, and the wave of protests soon spread throughout the country, and even the Japanese government in the streets of Tokyo used the army to suppress it, killing and wounding dozens of protesting patriots.

However, the intellectuals did not respond much, and even a large number of Japanese scholars applauded this deal in the newspapers, which shows that Emperor Yang has been hyped in Japan in recent years that China and Japan have the same roots, and the slogan of unity and common prosperity in East Asia is still very effective, especially those who have returned from studying in China, have begun to advocate that they should take this opportunity to promote the Sino-Japanese alliance, let the emperor give way to Yang Feng, and form a dualistic empire similar to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If this is not possible, you can also directly join the Empire of the Federal Republic of China on the premise of retaining the emperor. (To be continued......)